I’ve spent some time recently in the company of the Revolutionary War Seneca war leader Cornplanter. The son of a Dutch trader and a Seneca woman, Cornplanter was a highly effective partisan in the savage fighting in the Mohawk Valley of New York during the American Revolution. After the war, he resigned himself — and led his people — to … [Read more...] about Repatriating A Tomahawk

(The following is a guest post from  Captain of the Great Plains  Deuce Richardson): Today marks the one thousand and fifth anniversary of the death of Brian Boru at the Battle of Clontarf. I was there, five years ago on the beach of Clontarf, to celebrate the millennial anniversary of that battle and to mourn the death of Ireland's greatest … [Read more...] about The Great Captain Of The Irish Frontier

The Son returns on AMC Saturday, April 27. The Texas tale based on the novel by Phillip Meyer is a good ’un. This’ll be it for the series, which had to be limited if it was going to be faithful to the source material. According to AMC, the narrative of the final season will unfold in three alternating timelines: “Eli McCullough (Pierce Brosnan) … [Read more...] about Return Of ‘The Son’

Barry McKnight scouted up this interesting piece of intel: Paramount TV is developing a Last of the Mohicans TV series. From Deadline: Written by Cary Joji Fukunaga and Nicholas Osborne and directed by Kassell, The Last of the Mohicans series will be a retelling of Cooper’s French and Indian War novel that re-centers the classic tale on the … [Read more...] about Last of the Mohicans Coming To TV

  * Ace scout Deuce Richardson kicked up an epic from the Creek War, featuring one of the great Frontier Partisans — Sam Dale. Often called “the Daniel Boone of Alabama,” he is more properly seen as a peer of Simon Kenton or Captain Sam Brady: a Ranger of exceptional fortitude and prowess. The Canoe Fight is one of the classic engagements in … [Read more...] about Beyond The Alabama River

The blue smoke still hung in the air No one stood when the cops got there...   Frontier Partisans posted on this on December 11, 2015: It was one of the deadliest shootouts in the wild history of Texas. It didn’t happen during the violent post-Civil War era. It didn’t involve the Regulators and the Moderators or the gunslingers of the … [Read more...] about No Judge, No Jury, No Hangman, No Justice Down In Old Waco

The State of Oregon has officially expressed regret over one of the nastiest and costliest episodes in Frontier Partisans history. It took hundreds of troops, a great measure of blood and treasure, and the death of an American general to defeat a tiny band of highly capable Modoc fighters holed up in a natural fortress of lava beds just over the … [Read more...] about Oregon Sends Its Regrets

I had a dream in the early hours of Wednesday morning that featured “Powderfinger.” Haven’t listened to it or played it for years. Weird. Supposedly Neil Young wrote the song for Lynyrd Skynyrd (he and Ronnie Van Zant became friends after the “Hope Neil Young will remember” shot in “Sweet Home Alabama”). I remember spinning this over and over … [Read more...] about Shelter Me From The Powder And The Finger

• Back in the day when I was heavy into muzzleloaders and such, I did some shopping through a catalog outfit known as James Townsend & Son. Based out of Indiana, they were an important resource for authentically styled 18th and early 19th century clothing and accouterments for the discerning … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — April 2019

“I have given the United States half the territory they possess, and for them to suffer me to remain in poverty, in consequence of it, will not redound much to their honor hereafter.” — General George Rogers Clark, Letter to General Jonathan Clark George Rogers Clark’s life didn’t fall apart all at once. It broke down piece by piece over a … [Read more...] about ’Half The Territory They Possess’ — The Battles Of The Long Knife — Part IV